National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3740
Original release date:10/05/2010
Last revised:01/27/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Net Search Extender (NSE) implementation in the Text Search component in IBM DB2 UDB 9.5 before FP6a does not properly handle an alphanumeric Fuzzy search, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and system hang) via the db2ext.textSearch function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IC66613
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13811
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/ps/products/db2/fixes/english-us/aparlist/db2_v95/APARLIST.TXT
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13811
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)